"I thought that was it and we'd just send it in and it'd all be over, but that didn't happen," said Anjali Pulim, a seventh-grader at Clarksville Middle School.

It's called "Doodle 4 Google," an annual national contest that happens to roll off the tongue and done to redesign the Google homepage logo.

Pulim is Maryland's seventh-grade winner, which came from a design that happened to roll off from clay.

"It's like more hands-on than drawing," Pulim said. "I don't know I just like it better."

Pulim said she heard about the contest five years back, only this year she started feeling lucky, mainly because of the theme, "What makes me me? Her interests include drawing, making things and reading, all of which she used for her state-award-winning owl design.

"Wherever you go, like, in a library, there's going to be an owl somewhere," Pulim said. "I don't know why it's just, like, owls, reading and then they use owls in Harry Potter so that would be kind of cool to put those in to represent that."

It's something others obviously think is cool as well, but for her parents it's no surprise.

"For us it's just something we've always been used to so great it looks awesome it's a little owl," Sandeep Pulim, Anjali's father, said. "She's one of these people that needs it to be perfect, and if it's not perfect, she'll keep doing it, and that's almost what happened. She almost didn't submit this because she's like, 'My owls aren't good enough. I've got to make it better.'"

The national winner will have his or her doodle featured on the U.S. Google.com homepage for one day. He or she will also receive, according to Google:

- A $30,000 college scholarship- A $50,000 Google for Education grant for his or her school- A trip to the Google Headquarters in California to meet the Google Doodlers, and the opportunity to nominate a teacher to come on the trip- A Chromebook- An Android tablet- A T-shirt printed with his or her doodle on it

But, there is still one more step to go. Voting for the contest is still open until Feb. 22. To vote and get involved, tap here.